IOWASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
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Full breach record for Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa →Mercy Iowa City (IA) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-11-13 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 92,795 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI stored in email, including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, offered credit monitoring, implemented additional technical safeguards, and retrained staff on phishing awareness. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_2a28526c953d48e1Maine State AGfiled 2020-11-13Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Nov 13, 2020
- Raw hash
- 9b125d650d1e1099d226cf33d5c1b5715db6cc4ebf311db2168baf8915c1e060
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowanorm: mercy hospital iowa city iowa
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowanorm: mercy hospital iowa city iowa
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 92,795
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 Phishing
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR notifiedOCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: not extracted→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.